Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

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George Gould has bought the title Of
Prince OF. st. Louis from the Italian
Government
The Rev. DIR. Dix, rector of Trinity
Church, New FORK, receives salary Of
SIC, 900 a year, while his two assistants
are satisfied with a modest 5000 q
year each. ..s
Solicitor McCue of the Treasury
Department is said to have made $780,
600 in real-estate speculations during
the two years he has been resident Of
Washington.
Sam Jones has invented new and
captivating title for the reporter who
dosea't report his sermons exactly to
suit the esthetic preacher. He calls
him s'pestiferous skunk. y .5,.
Henry S. Ives is now by many con-
sidered the coming fnancer of New
York. He has just purchased .
pleasure yacht, for which he gave the
neat little sum of $4,000 out of his
profits of the last four weeks.
Johann Most, the great all-around-
and-under-the-bed Anarchist, had his
name proposed Monday night for men,
bership in the Socialistic Work hgmen's
party in New York. After lively dis
cussion Mr.. Most was blackballed.
Thomas Ball has just completed at
Florence the clay model of large statue
OF +. L. Barnum, which is to be erected
in Bridgeport after the old ShoWman's
death. Thestatu will, very appropria-
tely be cast in bronze at the royal
foundry in Munich. go. j. l<'sH:
Daniel Mcfarland, who eighteen
years ago shot Albert D. Richardson in
the New York Tribune office, the other
night made application for lodging in
New York station-Eouse, He is old,
decrepit, and tottering, and little bet
ter than common tramp.
The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, the
anarchistic preacher who is creating a
sensation in the East, was formerly
printer in Indianapolis, afterwards an
actor, and finally entered the ministry.
His wife was Miss Ida Gatling, daught-
er OF the inventor of the Calling gun.
Of Senator Evarts' five daughters
only one remains unmarried. His twin
sons, one of whom was married a few
daysago, are graduates of Yale and were
very popular while at college. One of
them was valedictorian of his class,
while his brother stood very near the
top.
Matthias Splitlog has been swindled
out of $4,000 in a real-estate transac-
ton at Wyandotte, Kas. Mr.. Splitlog
is a Wyandotte Indian and worth ST.
100000. He can neither read nor
write, and is generally very shrewd at
a bargain, but the real-estate agents
were too much for his untutored mind.
Norman B.Ream, who describes him
self as ''a Chicago farmer,'' is credited
with having made so much money in
the recent smash-up in wheat that he
is expected back in Wall Street, and it
is thought quite probable that he will
buy back again the seat in the Stock
Exchange that he sold some time ago.
He sold for $4,000: he can reinvest
for $24, 000.-Nes0 York Times, ..,.
Mr.. Ruskin desires to contradict the
s'partly idle, partly malicious" rumors
which have lately got abroad concern
ing his health. ''Whenever," he says,
Il write a word that my friends don't
like they say am crazy land never con-
slider what a cruel and wicked form of
libel they thus provoke against the
work of an old age in all its convic-
tions antagonistic to the changes of the
times and in all its comfort oppressed
by them"
TAXI, the Chinese opium dealer who
bribed King. Kalakaua, seems to be
something of a humorist. His letter to
the King ran as follows: 20 Lord of
Heaven! Here is a small offering,
small pig for breakfast, and it would
be good thing if my royal master
would be pleased to accept this. And
here is something small, which will
be laid before you. A few ten-cent
pieces, $4,000 as your servant has
remembered and sent it. So may you
be gracious and kind to me-" etc. Ai
has delicate way of ssexplaining.''